Pope Urban VIII (April – July 29, ), born Maffeo Barberini, was Pope from to He was the last Pope to expand the papal territory by force of arms, and was a prominent patron of the arts and reformer of Church missions. However, the massive debts incurred during his papacy greatly weakened his successors, who were unable to maintain the Pope's longstanding political or military influence in Europe. He is famous, or infamous, for condemning and imprisoning Galileo. He had actually given permission for Galileo to publish his theory but as theory, not fact. It was less what Galileo wrote than the fact that he had been warned not to do that upset the Pope. The debts he accrued had paid for building and Baroque cultural artifacts to express the prestige of the papacy. However, behind this bold statement of power lay deep uncertainty as the new humanism of the Enlightenment questioned old assumptions. The tendency was to retreat into an authoritarianism that was out-of-step with the spirit of the age.
As a nepotist and spendthrift, Urban easily attracts criticism. Yet in both of these he but followed the example of many of
Urban, Pope, VIII
Born to the esteemed Barberini family of Florence, which had produced many popes, Urban VIII (–) enjoyed a lengthy but controversial pontificate marred by war, nepotism, and anti-intellectualism. A complicated man, he was also a patron to artists, canonized a number of saints, and extended the papal territory. On his participation during the Thirty Years War, the Barberini pope remains a conundrum.
Educated by his Mother
Maffeo was born to the esteemed Florentine Barberini family in His father, Antonio (who died when Barberini was only three), and mother, Camilla Barbadoro, were both of the nobility. Barberini was educated by his mother, who later took him to Rome to begin his philosophical studies under his uncle Francis Barberini, "apostolical protonotary," a title denoting a member of the first college of prelates of the Roman Curia.
Continuing his formal education with the Jesuits at their leading seminary, the Collegio Romano, Barberini graduated from Pisa in with a doctorate in law. He returned to Rome, where Pope Clement VIII () made him governor of Fano, then protonotary. In , as nuncio to the French court, Barberini traveled to France to congrat
Urban VIII (Pope) (Maffeo Barberini; –; reigned –)
URBAN VIII (POPE) (Maffeo Barberini; &#x;; reigned &#x;), Italian pope. After studies at Jesuit schools in Florence and Rome, he read law in Pisa (doctorate "in utroque jure" [both canon and civil law] in ), and entered the Roman prelature, backed by his uncle Francesco Barberini. He worked at the Signatura Tribunal, becoming prothonotary apostolic upon his uncle's resignation () and then clerk of the Apostolic Chamber (). In , his countryman Clement VIII appointed him governor of Fano, sending him later on important diplomatic missions. In , he was consecrated titular archbishop of Nazareth and sent as nuncio to Paris. In this capacity, he was able to gain support for the Jesuits in France, but could not secure acceptance of the Tridentine decrees. Created cardinal by Paul V in , he returned to Rome (), soon to be appointed bishop of Spoleto, a charge he held until , adding for a time (&#x;) the legation to Bologna. In both positions, he showed himself a strict administrator and a diligent reformer. In , he resigned his diocese and returned to Rome as prefect of the Signatura Tribunal. A member of several important Roman
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Pope Urban VIII
Maffeo Barberini ()
The Barberini were a powerful family, with branches in Rome and Florence, which had produced several cardinals up to that point. Maffeo was born into the Florentine branch of the family in His father died when Maffeo was only three years old; his mother insisted that he be educated by the Jesuits -- first in Florence, and later in Rome at the Jesuit Collegio Romano. Here he lived with his uncle, Francesco Barberini, who held the high church office of Prothonotary Apostolic. In he took the degree of doctor of law from the University of Pisa.
Maffeo Barberini' s rise in the church hierarchy was rapid. In he served as papal legate to the court of Henri IV, king of France; in he became archbishop of Nazareth (an office he obviously fulfilled in absentia since the Holy Land was under Moslem rule) and took up the post of papal nuncio (lit. messenger, the papal legate permanently accredited to a civil government) to the French king; in he was made a cardinal with the titular church of St. Peter in Montorio and later St. Onofrio; in he became bishop of Spoleto. As bishop, Barberini convened a synod, completed the cons
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